NoMad
The road (partially seen) running diagonally from the bottom of the image to the mid-right, is the famous Madison Avenue, from 30th East Street to 25th East Street.
This is most of NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park"), a neighbourhood centred on the Madison Square North Historic District in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area is described on some websites as New York's hottest up-and-coming neighbourhood. Certainly some of the apartments advertised in those four blocks are enormous...
The name NoMad, which has been in use since 1999, is derived from the area’s location north of Madison Square Park. The neighborhood is bordered by East 25th Street to the south, East 29th or East 30th Street to the north, Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west and Madison or Lexington Avenue to the east.
The building in the bottom left corner of the image is 79 Madison Avenue, a 17-storey, 250,000-square-foot Art Deco building with a beautiful entrance featuring a restored marble lobby, inspiring chandeliers and a gold leaf ceiling.
Dominating the mid-right of the image is the New York Life Insurance Building, located at 51 Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park. It is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company. Designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, who also designed the landmark Woolworth Building, it was apparently inspired by Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. It rises 40 stories to its pyramidal gilded roof and occupies the full block between 26th and 27th Streets, Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, a rarity in Manhattan. The building is 187m tall and was the last significant Gilbert skyscraper in Manhattan.
Previously, from 1837–1889, the site was occupied by the Union Depot of the New York and Harlem and the New York and New Haven Railroads, a concert garden, and P T Barnum's Hippodrome. Until 1925, the site housed the first two Madison Square Gardens, the second one designed by architect Stanford White.
The building was completed in 1928 after two years of construction at the cost of $21 million. It combines streamlined Gothic details and distinctly Moderne massing. The gold pyramid at the top consists of 25,000 gold-leaf tiles. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
This image was take from atop the Empire State Building and is scanned from a negative.
NoMad
The road (partially seen) running diagonally from the bottom of the image to the mid-right, is the famous Madison Avenue, from 30th East Street to 25th East Street.
This is most of NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park"), a neighbourhood centred on the Madison Square North Historic District in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area is described on some websites as New York's hottest up-and-coming neighbourhood. Certainly some of the apartments advertised in those four blocks are enormous...
The name NoMad, which has been in use since 1999, is derived from the area’s location north of Madison Square Park. The neighborhood is bordered by East 25th Street to the south, East 29th or East 30th Street to the north, Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west and Madison or Lexington Avenue to the east.
The building in the bottom left corner of the image is 79 Madison Avenue, a 17-storey, 250,000-square-foot Art Deco building with a beautiful entrance featuring a restored marble lobby, inspiring chandeliers and a gold leaf ceiling.
Dominating the mid-right of the image is the New York Life Insurance Building, located at 51 Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park. It is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company. Designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, who also designed the landmark Woolworth Building, it was apparently inspired by Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. It rises 40 stories to its pyramidal gilded roof and occupies the full block between 26th and 27th Streets, Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, a rarity in Manhattan. The building is 187m tall and was the last significant Gilbert skyscraper in Manhattan.
Previously, from 1837–1889, the site was occupied by the Union Depot of the New York and Harlem and the New York and New Haven Railroads, a concert garden, and P T Barnum's Hippodrome. Until 1925, the site housed the first two Madison Square Gardens, the second one designed by architect Stanford White.
The building was completed in 1928 after two years of construction at the cost of $21 million. It combines streamlined Gothic details and distinctly Moderne massing. The gold pyramid at the top consists of 25,000 gold-leaf tiles. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
This image was take from atop the Empire State Building and is scanned from a negative.